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Apr 26, 2012Women & Work finds the Memphis band at complete ease with their mix of '70s outlaw country and plenty of punk rock attitude and swagger, making it easily the most consistently solid release in their already enviable cannon of music.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013Women & Work strikes a party-hearty country-soul vein. [Feb 2013, p.103]
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UncutDec 11, 2012Well worth the wait. [Jan 2013, p.74]
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Mar 22, 2012Women & Work is the sound of a mature, confident band, fully embracing their hometown's musical legacy, and wrapping it inside their own sound, making each both larger and deeper.
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Mar 20, 2012The songs of whiskey drinking, pretty girls and heartbreak are certainly Lucero's bread and butter, but stacked up against their back catalog, Women & Work plays it just a little too safe.
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Mar 20, 2012As in real life, the party songs are more fun than the hangover.
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Mar 20, 2012Women & Work has more of bar-band feel-granted, a really good bar band, but something generic is creeping into Lucero's sound.
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Mar 21, 2012Chocked with perspectives, inexpensive times and homegrown storytelling, Women & Work is the perfect album for when you're on your way to a family reunion and hoping your country family will be appreciative of your taste in music.
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MojoDec 17, 2012The years haven't deadened Lucero's spirit: indeed, that experience only lends their ballads and brawlers a weightier punch. [Jan 2013, p.90]
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Mar 20, 2012By draining the grunge and punk influences from their sound and then over-producing every single song, Lucero have effectively become every Southern rock, blues-inspired bar band you've ever heard.